Improvement in loom-shuttles



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM BEATTY AND GRANVILLE M. EDWARDS, OF GRAY, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LOOM-SHUTTLES.

t pecification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,150, datedSeptember 12, 1876; application filed J une 2, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM BEATTY and GRANVILLE M. EDWARDS, of Gray,county of Cumberland, and State of Maine, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Loom-Shuttles, of which the following is a specilication This invention relates to an improved metallic shuttle; andconsists in a shuttle construcled of two steel shells, in combinationwith a steel tip at each end, secured by means of steel crosspieces, ashereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the openside of a sheetsteel loom-shuttle in part section; Fig. 2, a view of thefaced side of a sheet-steel loomshuttle; Fig. 3, a longitudinal sectionof the shuttle; and Fig. 4, a cross-section on line .20 w,'Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A represents a loom-shuttle, of the ordinary shapelongitudinally'and transversely. This shuttle A is longitudinally in twoparts, B and G, and each part B and G is made of a distinct sheet orplate, a, of steel, shaped to the proper shape imany suitable manner-as,for instance, by dies of proper form; and, when so shaped, they areplaced together, one alongside of the other, with a solid steel tip, b,in each end, and then there secured by a steel orosspiece, 0, near eachend of the shuttle. These cross-pieces 0 are within the open space D ofthe shuttle, and they are secured, by rivets d, against and to the innerfaces of the steel plates at, which make up the shuttle, as is shown inthe drawings. D a facing of brass, or other equivalent material, on andalong the side or face E of the shuttle, which, in the use of theshuttle, runs contiguou'sly or adjacent to the reeds of loom. i

The brass facing D is secured to the steel shuttle by brazing it on thesteel; but it may be otherwise secured, as by rivets. Brazing, however,is most preferable.

The facing D as it is of a softer metal than that of which the reeds aremade, does not cut or wear away the reeds as a harder metalsuch assteel-would. Therefore its application as afacing to the steel shuttle,as herein described, obviously relieves the steel shuttle of allliability of wear upon the reeds.

A shuttle made of steel obviously is most strong and durable, and doesnot splinter like wood, of which loom-shuttles are usually made.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

The metallic shuttle, constructed of two shells, B O, of steel, incombination with the steel tips b and the cross-pieces c, by which theyare secured, substantially as described.

WILLIAM BEATTY. G. EDWARDS. Witnesses:

EDWIN W. BROWN, GEO. H. EARL.

